Academic Background

Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1983.
M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979.
B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science (summa cum laude), University of Rochester, 1977.

Professional Experience

2005 -- present; Secretary and Executive Board Member, National Center for Homeopathy.
2004 -- present; Homeopathic Consultant, practicing in Mountain View, California.
2003 -- present; Board Member, National Center for Homeopathy.
2003 -- present; President, R.L.Ranch Press.
2001 -- 2005; Executive Board Member, California Health Freedom Coalition.
1998 -- 2000; Co-editor, The American Homeopath, Journal of the North American Society of Homeopaths.
1995 -- present; President, Renaissance Research.
1995 -- 1998;Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Symbolic Systems Program
1989 -- 1995;Senior Computer Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Branch, NASA Ames Research Center.
1984 -- 1989;Computer Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International.
1983 -- 1984; Computer Scientist, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International.
Summer 1980; Summer research intern, Computer Science Laboratory, Xerox PARC.
Spring 1980;Teaching fellow, Computer Science, Stanford University.
Summer 1979;Software engineer, Zilog Inc.
1977 -- 1983;Research assistant, Computer Science, Stanford University.
Summer 1976; Research assistant, Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Professional Honors

Nominated for Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (1994/95).
Hertz Foundation Fellow (1980-1983).
National Science Foundation Fellow (1977-1980).
Stoddard Prize in Mathematics, University of Rochester, (1977).
Wilson Scholar, University of Rochester
Phi Beta Kappa

Research and Professional Work in Homeopathy

In 1998, Amy Lansky left her work in computer science to pursue her vision of bringing an awareness and understanding of Homeopathy to the American people. The impetus for this was the homeopathic cure of her son's autism, as well as several subsequent healing experiences she has witnessed and experienced.

Since 1996, she has been a student of The School of Homoeopathy, Devon, England, from which she earned a Foundation Certificate in 1998. Lansky has also studied with several prominent homeopaths. These studies include intensive clinical studies with Louis Klein (for which she was awarded a certificate of completion of the Homeopathic Master Clinician's course), Sadhna Thakkar, Misha Norland, and Simon Taffler, as well as workshops given by Rajan Sankaran, Jan Scholten, Alize Timmerman, A.U. Ramakrishnan, Janet Snowdon, and Jeremy Sherr. Lansky began her practice as a homeopath in 2004.

From 1998 through 2000, Lansky served as co-editor of The American Homeopath, the journal of the North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH) -- an organization that represents professional homeopaths in the United States and Canada.

In the spring of 2001, Lansky help to start (and became an executive board member of) the California Health Freedom Coalition, an organization that sponsored and passed SB-577, the health freedom bill that legalized the practice of unlicensed forms of alternative medicine in California (passed September 2002). In October 2001 she testified before a California State Senate hearing on the benefits of alternative medical treatment, with a particular focus on the homeopathic cure of her son's autism.

In 2003, Lansky published an introductory book on Homeopathy for the general public: Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy. She was also elected to the board of the National Center for Homeopathy in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2005, she became Secretary and Executive Board Member of the National Center.

Research and Professional Work in Computer Science

For nearly twenty years, Amy Lansky was an active computer science researcher. She is most well known for her work in artificial intelligence, an area of research focused on endowing computers with the ability to emulate human reasoning. Her work at both NASA and at SRI International had application in the space shuttle program, NASA's Earth Observing System, and at Grumman Aerospace. She also served as a consulting associate professor at Stanford University for three years, as part of their Symbolic Systems program.

Lansky's primary area of expertise within artificial intelligence was planning and scheduling -- i.e., the construction of programs that are able to create complex activity plans. Her work was applied to building-construction tasks and to image processing for satellite imagery. Lansky was also a leading researcher in the area of reactive planning, in which pre-constructed procedures are applied in dynamically changing environments. Her work in this area was used for handling fault diagnostics for the space shuttle and in robotics applications.

As a graduate student at Stanford, Amy Lansky's thesis work involved developing a new methodology for representing the semantics of parallel programming languages and for proving the correctness of such programs. Her method was based on a novel use of temporal logic. During her tenure at Stanford, she also worked as a summer intern at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where she helped develop one of the first prototypes for remote procedure call, a technique which enables computers to run programs on remote machines.

Lansky also chaired and served on the program committees of numerous conferences and workshops. These included several conferences sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, NASA, and the 1994 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She also served as a reviewer for many journals and organizations, including the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Lansky was the principal investigator on several government research grants sponsored by NSF and NASA.

Publications, Books, Technical Notes

Amy Lansky is the author of an introductory homeopathy text, Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy. This book has become the bestselling book on homeopathy at Amazon, has been adopted by several schools as a text, and has also become the patient-education book of choice for many homeopaths. She is also a columnist for the quarterly newsletter of the Society of Homeopaths (UK), has a monthly radio show on Autism One Radio (www.autismone.org/radio) -- "There's Hope with Homeopathy", and writes articles for a variety of homeopathic and popular periodicals. For more information about Lansky's media appearances, visit her book website.

Lansky has also authored dozens of scholarly papers in computer science, most of which have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She was also co-editor of a book that continues to sell copies after many years in publication, Reasoning About Actions and Plans, Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop at Timberline, Oregon.

• The Hope of Homeopathy and To Your Health!, Mothering Magazine, pp. 44-53, January/February 2006.

• Letters from America, Ongoing column in the quarterly newsletter of the Society of Homeopaths, UK (Spring 2004 -- present).

• Book Review: The Companion to Homeopathy: The Practitioner's Guide, Homeopathy Today (2006).

• Book Review: A Drug-Free Approach to Asperger Syndrome and Autism, Homeopathy Today, November/December 2005.

• Discover the NCH Online!, Board Column, Homeopathy Today, September/October 2005.

• Heilung Moglich mit Homoopathie (German translation of Impossible Cure), Random House Germany (June 2005).

• A New -- Yet Old -- Approach to What Ails You, Many Hands -- New England's Magazine for Holistic Health, Spring 2005. (This article is available for re-publication; suitable for family publications).

• Claiming Our Right to Health Freedom, Health Freedom News, Spring 2005. (This article is available for re-publication).

• Healing the World -- Service Through Homeopathy, Board Column, Homeopathy Today, May/June 2004.

• Can Homeopathy Cure Autism? (Excerpts from Impossible Cure), Autism Asperger's Digest Magazine, March/April 2004.

• Causation Can Be the Key (Excerpt from Impossible Cure), Homeopathy Today, September 2003.

• Max's Story: A Homeopathic Cure of Autism (Excerpt from Impossible Cure), in Treating Autism: Parent Stories of Hope and Success, Autism Research Institute, San Diego, California, pp.208-230 (2003).

• Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy, R.L.Ranch Press, Portola Valley, California (2003).

• An Interview of Roger Van Zandvoort, in The American Homeopath, Number 6 (2000).

• An Interview of David Warkentin, in The American Homeopath, Number 6 (2000).

• Hahnemann's Provings, collected by Will Taylor, edited by Amy Lansky, in The American Homeopath, Number 6 (2000).

• Consciousness as an Active Force, The Noetic Journal, Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2000).
  This paper has also been on the web at: www.renresearch.com/consciousness.html since 1996, where it has generated considerable interest from readers from all over the world. It has also been cross-linked to dozens of prominent web sites devoted to consciousness studies.

• Gallic Acid, in The American Homeopath, Number 5 (1999).

• Image and Sensation. Seminar review in Homeopathy Today, Volume 18, Number 2 (February 1998).

• Max's Story: A Carcinosin Cure, Homeopathy Online, Issue 5, Spring 1998, http://www.lyghtforce.com/HomeopathyOnline. A condensed version appeared in Similia, the publication of the Australian Homoeopathic Association, Volume 11, Number 2 (July 1998).

• Localized Planning with Diverse Plan Construction Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 98, Number 1-2, pp. 49--136 (January 1998).

• Web-Based Planning for Image Processing, 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium on Acquisition, Learning, and Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users, Stanford University, Stanford, California (March 1996).

• Scope and Abstraction: Two Criteria for Localized Planning, with L. Getoor, in IJCAI-95, Montreal, Canada (August 1995). Also appeared in Proceedings of the 1994 Workshop on Theory Reformulation and Abstraction, Wyoming (May 1994).

• The COLLAGE/KHOROS Link: Planning for Image Processing Tasks, with L. Getoor, M. Friedman, S. Schmidler, and N. Short, 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated Planning Applications, Stanford University, Stanford, California (March 1995).

• Practical Planning in COLLAGE, with L. Getoor, in Proceedings of the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium on Planning and Learning: On to Real Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 1994).

• Action-Based Planning, in the proceedings of AIPS-94, the Second International Conference on AI Planning Systems, Chicago, IL (June 1994).

• A Data Analysis Assistant, Proceedings of the 1994 AAAI Spring Symposium on Software Agents, Stanford, California (1994). A slightly modified version of this paper also appeared in the proceedings of I-SAIRAS-94, The Third International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation for Space, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (October 1994).

• AI-Based Planning for Data Analysis Tasks, with A.G. Philpot, Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications (CAIA-93), pp. 390-398, Orlando, Florida (1993). Also appeared in IEEE Expert Magazine, Volume 9 Number 1 (February 1994).

• COLLAGE: A Diversified Constraint-Based Planning Architecture, with A.G. Philpot, in Proceedings of the 1993 AAAI Spring Symposium on Foundations of Automatic Planning: The Classical Approach and Beyond, Stanford, California (1993).

• Localization vs. Abstraction: A Comparison of Two Search Reduction Techniques in Proceedings of the 1992 Asilomar Workshop on Change of Representation and Problem Reformulation and in Proceedings of the AAAI-92 Workshop on Approximation and Abstraction of Computational Theories (1992).

• Localized Search for Multiagent Domains, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-91), Sydney, Australia, pp. 252--258 (1991).

• Towards an Integrated Data Analysis Workbench for EOS Scientists, with R. Keller, Unpublished Whitepaper (1990).

• Localized Search for Controlling Automated Reasoning, in Proceedings of the 1990 DARPA Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, San Diego, California, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 115-125 (1990). Also appears as Technical Note FIA-90-08-15-01, Artificial Intelligence Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035 (1990).

• The Role of AI Planning in NASA Missions, with Mark Drummond, unpublished paper (1990).

• Localized Search for Complex Planning Domains, with Lode Missiaen, in Proceedings of the 1990 AAAI Workshop on Planning for Complex Domains, D. Mitchell (editor), Boston, Massachusetts (1990).

• Localized Representation and Planning, in Readings in Planning , J. Allen, J. Hendler, and A. Tate (editors), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 670-674 (1990). Also appeared in Proceedings of 1989 Stanford Symposium Workshop on Planning and Search, Stanford, California (1989).

• A Perspective on Multiagent Planning, Technical Note 474, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (1989).

• Localized Event-Based Reasoning for Multiagent Domains, Computational Intelligence Journal Special Issue on Planning, Volume 4, Number 4, (November 1988). This paper has also been published as Technical Note 423, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (1988).

• Localized Representation and Planning Methods for Parallel Domains, in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington (July 1987).

• Reactive Reasoning and Planning, with M.P. Georgeff, in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington (July 1987).

• Reasoning and Planning in Dynamic Domains: An Experiment with a Mobile Robot, with M.P. Georgeff and M.J. Schoppers, Technical Note 380, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (1987). A version of this paper also appeared in Proceedings of the 1987 Workshop on Space Telerobotics, G. Rodriguez (editor), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (1987).

• Coeditor of Reasoning About Actions and Plans, Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop at Timberline, Oregon, with M.P. Georgeff, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Los Altos, California (1987).

• A Representation of Parallel Activity Based on Events, Structure, and Causality, in Reasoning About Actions and Plans, Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop at Timberline, Oregon, M.P. Georgeff and A.L. Lansky (editors), Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Los Altos, California, pp. 123-160 (1987). This paper has also been published as Technical Note 401, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (1986).

• Procedural Knowledge, with M.P. Georgeff, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Knowledge Representation, Volume 74, Number 10, pp.1383-1398 (October 1986).

• A System for Reasoning in Dynamic Domains: Fault Diagnosis on the Space Shuttle, with M.P. Georgeff, Technical Note 375, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (1985).

• A Procedural Logic, with M.P. Georgeff and P. Bessiere, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-85), Los Angeles (1985).

• A `Behavioral' Approach to Multiagent Domains, in Proceedings of 1985 Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Sea Ranch, California, pp. 159-183 (1985).

• Behavioral Specification and Planning for Multiagent Domains, Technical Report 360, SRI International, Artificial Intelligence Center, Menlo Park, California (1985).

• Specification and Analysis of Concurrency, Doctoral Dissertation, Technical Report STAN-CS-83-993, Computer Science Department, Stanford University (1983).

• GEM: A Tool for Concurrency Specification and Verification, with S. Owicki, in Proceedings of 2nd SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1983).

• Representation and Refinement of Visual Specifications, with M.Moriconi, in Proceedings of the 1983 Symposium on Software Validation, Darmstadt, Germany (1983).

• PASMAC -- A Macroprocessor for Pascal, CSL-TN 174, Stanford University, Computer Science Laboratory, (1980).

Hobbies

Instruments: Piano, Voice, Drums, Guitar.
Composer of several piano and liturgical works.
Former lead singer of "Not Dead Yet" -- aka "The Wizards" (oldies R+B group).
Qigong meditation, Reiki.
Swimming, equitation, martial arts.
Needlework, photography, watercolor.